Chapter 25
Eloy felt she hadn't been back to Fox Manor in a long time, and it was true, she had been taken back to live there briefly for about two months after her mom died. Her oldest uncle, her dad's older brother Jaspar, had died suddenly in a car accident one day, a tragic accident that amounted to a major family trauma that sent the Fox's into a frenzy of fear and divided interests, and she was reduced to being unsupervised again, and then one day after school the driver who picked her up didn't show up.
She waited until late, standing on the footbridge looking down as the streetlights came on one after another, and she suddenly realized then that this was not an accidental oversight, but a signal to abandon her, a hidden meaning that is the usual tactic possessed by such a gentry, similar to Mrs. Fox sneering in amiable tones that their mother and daughter were just poor people who had come to beg for money.